Unity Technologies and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Alliance to
Democratize Connected Game Development

New suite of tools and services built to empower millions of
developers to build, launch and grow connected games; Unity also
announces infrastructure migration to Google Cloud

June 19, 2018 01:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time

BERLIN & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unity Technologies (https://unity3d.com/),
creator of the world's most widely-used real-time 3D development
platform, today announced a strategic alliance with Google Cloud. The
alliance gives developers access to the development tools needed to
build single and multiplayer connected games, and the robust
infrastructure they need to build, launch, and grow games seamlessly at
global scale.

"We're proud of the many Unity developers that collectively produce more
than half the world's games," said John Riccitiello, Chief Executive
Officer, Unity Technologies. "Multiplayer games have long been the
fastest-growing type of games. Multiplayer games are also the most
challenging to create and properly support. Our alliance with Google
Cloud will help developers build multiplayer games more easily and
operate them more cost-effectively, at a global scale."

Unity Puts Connected Games at the Fingertips of All Developers

While connected games are the most played, watched and successful gaming
experiences, making them is a challenging endeavor that requires
significant resources, technology and knowledge -- a hard feat for
developers large and small. Unity and Google Cloud will empower game
creators with a suite of features designed to accelerate development of
connected games, starting with multiplayer game server hosting and a new
open source matchmaking project co-founded by Unity and Google Cloud.
Unity will release a fully managed version of the open source
matchmaking project, integrated with the Unity development environment
and running on Google Cloud. Right from Unity, developers will be able
to access the advantages of Google Cloud - performant infrastructure, at
massive scale - all without needing to become cloud experts.

“Much like Unity is dedicated to democratizing game development, we're
committed to democratizing the use of advanced technology through the
cloud,” said Diane Greene, CEO of Google Cloud. “We're excited to work
together with Unity to ensure developers have the tools and
infrastructure they need to build, launch and grow games at global
scale.”

Unity Migrates Infrastructure to Google Cloud

In addition to building solutions for developers, Unity will be
migrating its own infrastructure to Google Cloud. Through this alliance,
Google Cloud is demonstrating its commitment to supporting game
companies big and small. Both Unity and its developer community will
benefit from Google Cloud's openness, security, scalability, and
innovation through data.

Riccitiello continued: “Migrating our infrastructure to Google Cloud was
a decision made based on the company’s impressive global reach and
product quality. Now, Unity developers will be able to take advantage of
the unparalleled capabilities to support their cloud needs at a global
scale.”

Unity is committed to enabling success and solving hard problems for all
its customers, across the many industries where its real-time 3D
development platform is helping bring products to life. Unity currently
powers more than 60% of all AR/VR experiences, supports 25+ platforms,
and reaches nearly 3 billion devices worldwide.

Unity is the creator of the world's most widely-used real-time 3D
development platform, giving developers around the world the tools to
create rich, interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. The company's
800 person engineering team keeps Unity at the bleeding-edge of
technology by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook,
Oculus and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases
and platforms. Games and experiences made with Unity reach ~3 billion
devices worldwide and were installed more than 24 billion times in the
last 12 months. Unity's renowned flexibility gives developers the power
to target and optimize their creations for 25+ platforms including Xbox
One, PlayStation 4, Gameroom (Facebook), SteamVR (PC & Mac), Oculus,
PSVR, Gear VR, HoloLens, ARKit (Apple), ARCore (Google) and more. Unity
also offers solutions and services for connecting with audiences
including Unity Ads, Unity Analytics, Unity Asset Store, Unity Cloud
Build, Unity Collaborate, Unity Connect and Unity Certification.